Cresson Inquiry Is Allowed
As EU Panel Lifts Immunity

STRASBOURG, France -- Responding to a request by Belgian investigators, the European Commission decided to lift the immunity from prosecution of former research commissioner Judith Cresson.

Mrs. Cresson served under Jacques Santer, who led the commission that resigned en masse early last year amid allegations of corruption and cronyism. Belgian prosecutors want to question Mrs. Cresson about two issues: alleged mismanagement at a European Union youth-training program called Leonardo Da Vinci, which fell under her...